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**Desert Oracle Radio**

Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX).

Latest Episodes:

#047: Interstellar Visitations Jan 19, 2019

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Is Oumuamua a scout from another civilization? Aren't we long overdue for some outside assistance?

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#046: Travel Options for the Apocalypse Jan 12, 2019

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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

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#045: Shutdowns & Date Shakes Dec 29, 2018

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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Smart Mouth, on the desert date shake. PLUS: More air-traffic radio from the UFO invasion of Edwards Air Force Base, 1965.

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#044: A Mojave Solstice Dec 21, 2018

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A winter-holiday desert road trip, your letters about strange machinery, and a very special Joshua Tree Christmas Pageant with Brendan Maze.

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#043: Highways and Aliens Dec 01, 2018

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We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new documentary about Bob Lazar and the reverse-engineered UFOs.

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#042: Of Fire and Monsters Nov 16, 2018

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Night has fallen on the desert, and that’s when we like to tell monster stories. Weird tales. When there's trouble on the edge of civilization, where the wilderness meets what mankind makes, well here we encounter fierce things both natural and supernatural.

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#041: Culmination of the Pleiades Nov 09, 2018

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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.

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#040: Welcome To Dirt-Pile City Oct 26, 2018

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We are still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-Pile City," in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm.

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#039: Lost Cities of the Desert Giants Oct 20, 2018

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Secret civilizations beneath the Panamint Mountains, strange tales of ancient giants and the sky-ships of the the Hav-Musuvs.

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#038 The Horror of Solar Lodge Sep 29, 2018